Muslim and non-Muslim analysts often tell us that many Muslims hate the West for its decadence, its immorality, its lasciviousness, which they contrast unfavorably with the supposed morality and uprightness of the Islamic world. Often this boils down to a Muslim critique of Western “freedom,” especially as Bush and Obama (and now Biden’s handlers) pursued military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan ostensibly to bring Western-style freedom to those countries.
In line with that, the Mufti of Australia, Sheikh Taj al-Din al-Hilali, once complained that “Australian law guarantees freedoms up to a crazy level.” Yet genuine freedom is an indispensable prerequisite for any cultivation of real virtue. Even the post-Christian West makes it more possible to be virtuous than the apparently much more straitlaced Islamic world. With its stonings, amputations, death penalties for an array of offenses including apostasy, Islam has created not a framework in which people can become genuinely good, but an empire of fear. People don’t dare step out of line, not out of an authentic understanding that the path of moral and ethical uprightness is preferable to the alternative, much less out of love for God or a real desire to please him, but because they are afraid of what would happen to them if they did depart from Islam’s vision of morality.
“Three people whipped in Herat for eating during the ‘Ramadan’ month,” Khaama Press, April 20, 2021 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
A video clip shared on social media network, shows whipping of the three adults by the Taliban group.
The three adults were being whipped in connection to eating during the Ramadan month in a remote area of Obah district in Herat province.
The shared clip shows Taliban members whipping three adults with wooden stick in front of a public gathering.
This comes as last week a woman was flogged by the Taliban in the same region for adultery.
It is worth mentioning that the Taliban in some areas have control over trials, and are judging people in various summary courts for various criminal activities.
Previously a woman was stoned to death for being involved in adultery….
MykeJohn says
For eating in public or in the confine of their homes to the Islamists during Ramadan is the same “sin”. But to whip somebody who is not adherent of your faith begs to differ if we are worshipping the same G_d?
Infidel says
But muslims do eat after sunset. Did the Taliban whip them for eating during the day?
BlackSabbath says
Mohammadean is not supposed to eat between sunrise and sunset during Ramadan. Most moslem eat heavy breakfast, and pig out at dinner. That kind of fasting is a joke.
Raja says
BlackSabbath,
Perhaps Zakir Naik can lecture on the virtues of fasting, of course with tons of lies.
BlackSabbath says
Raja,
It is funny to see a goat (Zakir Naik) lecturing on the virtues of fasting. Smart move by the goat.
gravenimage says
Naik has a video on the benefits of fasting–even though this fasting and even abstaining from water during the heat of the day and then gorging at night has been shown to be harmful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtgivG_EFyg&ab_channel=DrZakirNaik
Singh T. Junior says
Two pakistani diplomats were caught shop lifting in South Korea yesterday (26 April 2021). What should be the punishment for them?
https://in.news.yahoo.com/two-pak-embassy-employees-caught-082321655.html
Raja says
Singh,
They would not dare do that in other nations.
Infidel says
Who would not dare do what – the Pak diplomats not dare shoplift, or the authorities in other countries not dare arrest them?
gravenimage says
Muslim “diplomats” regularly commit crimes in the Dar-al-Harb–they know they have diplomatic immunity and will be expelled at most.
Crusades Were Right says
[Western-style freedom]
Sorry, Robert, but there’s no such thing as “Western-style” freedom…
…just “freedom”.
James Lincoln says
Apparently, having continued US troops in Afghanistan is not preventing the continued implementation of sharia law…
Infidel says
Why not send Comrades Ilhan, Rashida, Linda and Keith Ellison to replace our troops in Afghanistan? Wouldn’t they be welcomed, being fellow Mohammedans?
gravenimage says
Afghanistan: Muslims publicly whip three people for eating during Ramadan
Muslim and non-Muslim analysts often tell us that many Muslims hate the West for its decadence, its immorality, its lasciviousness, which they contrast unfavorably with the supposed morality and uprightness of the Islamic world.
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Yes, you hear this claptrap all the time. But none of this oppression and savagery is moral.
David M says
Five minutes after all the foreign troops pack up & go home the Taliban will be in total control of the country again, & the trillions of dollars spent & so many lives lost will all be for naught.
Savvyone says
Yes David M, it will go back to the deplorable state it was in prior to the war. Too bad Muslims can’t see themselves through the eyes of the non-Muslim.
gravenimage says
The Taliban is–as this article shows–already running loose there. And Afghanistan itself has stoning back on the books.
Afghanistan cannot be civilzed. Long past time to cut our losses there.